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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6052621 | System and method for inducing tachycardia A system and method are provided for inducing ventricular tachycardia in a patient to enable testing to determine the optimum parameters for anti-tachycardia stimulation. The implantable device provides for overdrive pacing of the heart for a short sequen... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6024918 | Method for attachment of biomolecules to surfaces of medical devices A method for making a medical device having a biomolecule immobilized on a substrate surface is provided. The method includes coating the substrate surface with an amino-functional polysiloxane; and contacting the amino-functional polysiloxane coated surf... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5999857 | Implantable device telemetry system and method There is provided an improved telemetry system for use with implantable devices such as cardiac pacemakers and the like, for two-way telemetry between the implanted device and an external programmer. The system employs highly energy efficient oscillators ... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5989192 | Cardiac flow sensor Apparatus and method are provided for obtaining a measure of blood flow, and more specifically cardiac output, by analyzing blood temperature variations in the arterial tract. In a first embodiment, a lead carrying two closely spaced temperature sensors i... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5983126 | Catheter location system and method A system and method are provided for catheter location mapping, and related procedures. Three substantially orthogonal alternating signals are applied through the patient, directed substantially toward the area of interest to be mapped, such as patient's ... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5978709 | Pacemaker system with improved techniques for preventing and suppressing atrial arrhythmias There is provided a pacing system having special functions for treating the patient's atrium with atrial pacing so as to reduce the probability of occurrence of dangerous atrial arrhythmias. The pacemaker of the system provides for atrial Pace-- | 11/02/1999 |
| 5964787 | Stimulus system with controllable switched capacitor output stage There is provided an output stage for a battery powered implantable device, such as a cardiac pacemaker, for generating biphasic or triphasic pulses, each pulse having at least a prestimulus or poststimulus pulse of a first polarity, and a stimulus pulse ... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5951594 | Air core antenna for implantable device and method of production There is provided an air core antenna, and method of production of same, suitable for use in implantable device, the antenna being used for telemetric communication with an outside programmer unit. The air core antenna is fabricated upon a hybrid substrat... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5948004 | Implantable stimulator having an efficient output generator An output pulse generator is provided which is particularly suitable for implantable medical simulators, such as cardiac pacemakers, where there is a high premium on efficient energy transfer from the battery source to the output load. A plurality of rela... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5944743 | Pacemaker system and method with special function rate response There is provided a pacemaker system and method for enabling special rate control for patients who have specially recognized conditions, e.g., patients who are post-ablation and thus are susceptible to bradycardia-dependent ventricular fibrillation or oth... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5919216 | System and method for enhancement of glucose production by stimulation of pancreatic beta cells There is provided a system for automatically responding to insulin demand without any need for external monitoring or injecting of insulin into the diabetic patient. The system provides for sensing glucose levels internally, and responding by stimulating ... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5919209 | System and method for myocardial revalidation and therapy by high rate pacing There is provided a system and method for high rate pacing of patients for training, or revalidation of heart muscle. The system and method of this invention provide a therapy particularly directed for patients with CHF, to enable effective exercise of th... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5899929 | System for inducing tachycardia utilizing near field T-wave sensing A system and method are provided for inducing ventricular tachycardia in a patient to enable testing to determine the optimum parameters for anti-tachycardia stimulation. The implantable device provides for overdrive pacing of the heart for a short sequen... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5871531 | Medical electrical lead having tapered spiral fixation A transvenous lead specifically designed for coronary sinus implantation. The lead of the present invention features an electrode/anchoring portion at its distal end. The electrode/anchoring portion features a dual tapered self-propelling spiral electrode... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5865842 | System and method for anchoring brain stimulation lead or catheter A connector system and method for anchoring a tubular lead or catheter member within a cranial burr hole in a patient, providing for direct in-line positioning and reliable fixation of the member with respect to the patient's skull after the distal end po... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5861014 | Method and apparatus for sensing a stimulating gastrointestinal tract on-demand Method and apparatus for providing on-demand stimulation of the gastrointestinal tract. The apparatus features an implantable pulse generator which may be coupled to the gastric system through one or more medical electrical leads. In the preferred embodim... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5849033 | Temporary medical electrical lead A temporary atrial defibrillation lead featuring a pad fashioned of a pliant biocompatible material in which three parallel stainless steel defibrillation wire electrodes are mounted. The pad contains holes which expose the electrode wires in a discontinu... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5849032 | Single pass medical electrical lead A single pass medical electrical lead featuring an atrial wall wedging mechanism which will permit the atrial electrodes to be positioned directly against the right atrial wall. In the preferred embodiment the atrial wall wedging mechanism comprises an ex... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5843148 | High resolution brain stimulation lead and method of use A brain stimulation lead for precise delivery of electrical stimuli to a small dense brain target, and method of positioning such lead optimally in the patient's brain, is provided. The lead has a distal end portion which is substantially tubular or cylin... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5843150 | System and method for providing electrical and/or fluid treatment within a patient's brain A system and method for providing electrical and/or fluid treatment within a patient's brain, the system and method utilizing a feedthrough assembly made of a compressible material, and a disk-like pinch-on part, or resilient clamping part, which is secur... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5843135 | Pacing system with lead having a single conductor for connecting to pressure sensor and electrode A pacing system is provided having a lead with a pressure transducer or other sensor, the lead being characterized by having only a single conductor connecting the pacemaker with the signals from the sensor and the signals to and from the lead tip electro... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5836983 | Output stage with switchable constant current modes An output circuit is provided for delivering output pulses in either a constant voltage or constant current mode. The output circuit has a simple architecture built around a pair of area-ratioed transistors which operate in a linear range carrying a ratio... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5836311 | Method and apparatus for temporarily immobilizing a local area of tissue A method and apparatus for temporarily immobilizing a local area of tissue. In particular, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for temporarily immobilizing a local area of heart tissue to thereby permit surgery on a coronary vessel in th... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5836994 | Method and apparatus for electrical stimulation of the gastrointestinal tract A method and apparatus for providing electrical stimulation of the gastrointestinal tract. The apparatus features an implantable pulse generator which may be coupled to the gastric system through one or more medical electrical leads. In the preferred embo... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5836982 | System and method of data compression and non-linear sampling for implantable and battery-powered devices A system and method of non-linear sampling of an analog signal, and for data compression, to provide overall compressed digital representative of analog signal such as a physiological signal obtained in a battery powered device such as an implantable pace... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5827296 | Medical electrical lead A medical electrical lead system featuring a medical electrical lead which features an improved anchoring sleeve. The medical electrical lead and anchoring sleeve cooperate with an introducer sheath to minimize the flow of blood through the introducer she... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5824029 | Implantable medical system for performing transthoracic impedance measurements associated with cardiac function A method and apparatus for deriving impedance signals with an implanted pulse generator and lead system. In particular the present invention provides a medical system which delivers electrical stimulation pulses to a first area and senses impedance in a s... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5819740 | System and method for compressing digitized signals in implantable and battery powered devices A system and method for more efficient data compression is provided, being particularly applicable to use in battery powered devices where there is a premium on minimizing the steps required and the amount of memory that must be dedicated to the task. The... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5817133 | Pacemaker with morphological filtering of sensed cardiac signals A system and method are provided, particularly useful for an implantable cardiac pacemaker, for morphological filtering of sensed signals to reliably and accurately identify one or more specified wave portions of the sensed signals. In a first pacemaker e... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5814087 | Rate responsive pacemaker adapted to adjust lower rate limit according to monitored patient blood temperature A rate responsive pacemaker is provided having the capability of automatically adjusting the lower rate limit (LRL) for sleep, or nighttime. The pacemaker has a temperature sensor for determining patient blood temperature, and processes patient blood temp... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5814089 | Leadless multisite implantable stimulus and diagnostic system There is provided an implantable system and method for delivering stimulus pulses and/or collecting data from a plurality of sites within a patient's body, having a main controller device with a power source, a stimulator/sensing devices at each of said s... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5800496 | Medical electrical lead having a crush resistant lead body A medical lead which has a connector assembly coupled to an electrode by a lead body, the lead body is designed so as to have greater resistance to crush fatigue in the area which is located between the rib and clavicle when implanted. In particular the l... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5800497 | Medical electrical lead with temporarily stiff portion A medical electrical lead which features a portion of the lead body which may be made temporarily stiff. The lead preferred is designed for implantation into a body and would include electrodes for both the ventricle and the atrium. The temporarily stiff ... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5797970 | System, adaptor and method to provide medical electrical stimulation A system for providing medical electrical stimulation, the system features a pulse generator, the pulse generator generating electrical stimulation pulses of a first amplitude and a second amplitude, first and second elongated leads coupled to the pulse g... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5792212 | Nerve evoked potential measurement system using chaotic sequences for noise rejection There is provided a measurement system for measuring signals evoked in response to stimulus pulses applied to a nerve, muscle or like physiological portion of a patient. The measurement system is characterized by delivering stimulus pulses at randomly gen... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5782876 | Method and apparatus using windows and an index value for identifying cardic arrhythmias A method and apparatus for identifying cardiac arrhythmias. In the preferred embodiment the invention is embodied in an implantable pulse generator. The IPG features a system to analyze the sensed ECG. The system utilizes an algorithm able to quantify con... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5776178 | Medical electrical lead with surface treatment for enhanced fixation A medical electrical lead having a fixation helix which is surface treated along at least a portion to have a relatively high microscopic area along with a relatively low macroscopic area. In the preferred embodiment, such a surface treated portion is acc... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5766225 | System and method for distinguishing between VF/VT bradycardia or asystole A system and method for more reliably detecting and treating arrhythmias such as ventricular fibrillation and tachycardia are provided. The system reacts to the detection of VF/VT by first looking for one or more sensed R waves to confirm arrhythmia. If t... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5766527 | Method of manufacturing medical electrical lead A method of manufacture for a medical electrical lead, and in particular, a method of manufacturing a sintered porous platinized electrode used in a steroid eluting pacing cardiac lead which offers increased dimensional and shape consistency over previous... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5741311 | Implantable medical device system with method for determining lead condition In an implantable medical device system such as a pacemaker system, there is provided a system and method for measuring lead impedance so as to obtain reliable data concerning any indication of the need to replace the lead. A relatively short duration low... | 04/21/1998 |
